2026 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Augusta Civic Center
Augusta, Maine
Conference Menu
Agenda
7:30am – 8:30am
Registration, poster & exhibit viewing, continental breakfast
Main auditorium
8:30am – 10:30am
Morning concurrent sessions
- A. Funding the Future: Financing Strategies for Maine’s Sustainability and Water Projects (AM)
- B. Last cool places: Cold climate refugia in the Maine Landscape (AM)
- C. Toward Maine Resiliency: Opportunities, Challenges and Local Innovations (All day)
- D. MAINECAN: Maine community-led Energy and Climate Action Network (All day)
- E. Maine’s Wetlands: Freshwater and Tidal Ecosystems (All day)
- F. Farm to Faucet: PFAS in the Water Cycle and its Implications for Maine Agriculture and Consumers (All day)
- G. Ecohydraulics Research and Applications in Watershed and Coastal Resource Management (All day)
10:30am – 11:30am
Morning break, poster session, exhibit viewing
Main auditorium
11:30am – 12:30pm
Keynote address
Main auditorium
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Lunch and Poster Awards
Main auditorium
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Afternoon concurrent sessions
- C. Toward Maine Resiliency: Opportunities, Challenges and Local Innovations (All day)
- D. MAINECAN: Maine community-led Energy and Climate Action Network (All day)
- E. Maine’s Wetlands: Freshwater and Tidal Ecosystems (All day)
- F. Farm to Faucet: PFAS in the Water Cycle and its Implications for Maine Agriculture and Consumers (All day)
- G. Ecohydraulics Research and Applications in Watershed and Coastal Resource Management (All day)
- H. Informing Data-Driven Drought Decisions (PM)
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Afternoon break, poster & exhibit viewing
Main Auditorium
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Afternoon concurrent sessions (continued)
4:00pm
Conference close